Science
The Science Department
In Science we aim to provide a study of experimental investigation of the three sciences that gives all students a first class educational experience. Students acquire a body of scientific knowledge which is valuable to both everyday life and to study at a higher level. Throughout all of our courses students gain skills that enable them to be comfortable in a increasingly technological world; they should then be able to apply these skills in scientific method to unfamiliar situations.
Course outline for Key Stage 3
The following topic areas are covered by students in Year 7: environment and feeding relationships; variation and classification; electricity; solids, liquids and gases; acids and alkalis; forces and their effects; cells; reproduction; solutions; the Solar System; simple chemical reactions; energy resources.
In Year 8, students develop the previous skills that they have learnt and study the following areas: food and digestion; rocks and weathering; heating and cooling; atoms and elements; sound; respiration; compounds and mixtures; light; microbes and disease; the rock cycle; magnets and electromagnetism; ecology.
In Year 9, from September 2011, all our students will be following courses leading to the three separate GCSEs in Biology, Chemistry and Physics. This is a three year course and the students will achieve all three GCSE’s at the end of Y11.
Course outline for GCSE
Students in the current Year 9 and Year 10 are following GCSE courses in Science from the Suite of Edexcel Science courses. Further, general details of can be found by clicking on the following link:
http://cde.cerosmedia.com/1Q4d3077e107aeb012.cde
Information regarding each of the individual sciences can be found by following the links below:
Biology
http://www.edexcel.com/migrationdocuments/GCSE%20from%202011/GCSE_Biology.pdf
Chemistry
http://www.edexcel.com/migrationdocuments/GCSE%20from%202011/GCSE%20Chemistry.pdf
Physics
http://www.edexcel.com/migrationdocuments/GCSE%20from%202011/GCSE%20Physics.pdf
Students in the current Year 10 are the last cohort who are able to choose between studying for the three Sciences as separate subjects, as outlined in the links above (therefore gaining 3 GCSEs) or for Science and Additional Science (therefore gaining 2 GCSEs). For more information about the Double Science Award in Year 10, please follow the links below:
Science
http://www.edexcel.com/migrationdocuments/GCSE%20from%202011/GCSE%20Science.pdf
Additional Science
http://www.edexcel.com/migrationdocuments/GCSE%20from%202011/GCSE%20Additional%20Science.pdf
Students in the current Year 11 follow the 2007 suite of Edexcel Science courses. Further details of this course can be found using the following link:
http://www.edexcel.com/migrationdocuments/Current%20GCSE/UG018535_Science_2101new.pdf